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These dish fragments show just a few of those that were recovered during excavations in 2014 of the Adair cabin site, home of Reverend Samuel and Florella Brown Adair and their family, in Osawatomie, Kansas. Osawatomie and the Adairs was much involved with the abolitionist movement during the "Bleeding Kansas" years. A wide variety of patterns were recovered from the site including hand painted, molded, shell-edged and flow blue. Additionally, sherds were recovered that were decorated by transfer printing, called transferware, and by sponging with color, called spongeware.
Date: 1855-1912
Item Number: 446334
Call Number: 14MM327
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446334
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - European Americans
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Historic sites - John Brown Museum
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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